[Okular-devel] [okular] [Bug 364809] New: can't print file that contains invalid UTF-8 sequence

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364809

            Bug ID: 364809
           Summary: can't print file that contains invalid UTF-8 sequence
           Product: okular
           Version: 0.25.0
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: printing
          Assignee: okular-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: peter.maloney at brockmann-consult.de

maybe 2 related bugs reported together

(1) can't open a file with an invalid utf8 character in it, even though it's a
valid filename
    okular 'kindergeld'$'\303\244''nderung3.pdf'

    error window pops up "Could not open kindergeldänderung3.pdf"

    can work around this by renaming the file, or symlinking to it

    the file is available at this link, and I'll try attaching it too:
https://www.arbeitsagentur.de/web/wcm/idc/groups/public/documents/webdatei/mdaw/mdc0/~edisp/l6019022dstbai385303.pdf

(2) can't print the file because the "job name" it gives the printer has an
invalid utf8 character
    on console, you can see output like:
        lpr: Bad job-name value: "job-name": Bad name value
"Ver�nderungsmitteilung" - bad UTF-8 sequence (RFC 2911 section 4.1.2).

    the command it uses (obtained by replacing the lpr command with a script
that logs it)
        /usr/bin/lpr -P okidoki -#1 -J Ver�nderungsmitteilung -r
/tmp/kde-peter/okularH13352.ps

And while that's true that the sequence is invalid UTF-8, I don't really care
what the job name is, and would rather it just fake it and print; it wouldn't
affect the hard copy. And okular set the job name... it doesn't give me control
of it. I wouldn't even know what the job name was to use it since it doesn't
match the title or filename or anything.

So my workaround was to write a wrapper script that uses iconv to check args
and replaces invalid ones with $RANDOM. And that works.

Reproducible: Always

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